Quoteblog http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/ 2008-09-03T23:19:59-05:00 http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2008/09/03/.php

You can't change the wind, you can, however, adjust your sails.

--Unknown

]]> phil 2008-09-03T23:19:59-05:00 Unequal Dreams http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2005/01/07/unequal_dreams.php

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

--T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

]]> phil 2005-01-07T12:36:48-05:00 Love http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2004/12/28/love.php

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start.

--Mother Teresa

]]> phil 2004-12-28T10:53:40-05:00 Acting Wisely http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2004/12/17/acting_wisely.php Julia's three ways to act wisely:

The first way, by thinking, is the noblest. The second way, by imitation, is the easiest. The third way, through experience, is the bitterest.

--Confucius, Munich, May, 1993

]]> phil 2004-12-17T11:40:18-05:00 Getting Started http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2004/10/08/getting_started.php

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

-- Walt Disney

]]> phil 2004-10-08T12:12:36-05:00 Hyphen American http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2004/08/13/hyphen_american.php

Why is it the minute I open my mouth the whole world is telling me they're Irish and we should all have a drink? It's not enought to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen.

--Frank McCourt in 'Tis

Isn't that' the truth? I understand honoring your heritage and all, but why can't we just be American? I guess these days a lot of people hate American's, though, and maybe we should identify ourselvs as Irish or German or, in my case Polish, while travelling abroad.

]]> Books phil 2004-08-13T13:08:43-05:00 Success http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2004/07/25/success.php From Aunt Debb in my graduation card:

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors, to live the life that he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

-- Henry David Thoreau

]]> Other phil 2004-07-25T01:29:14-05:00 History http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2004/07/23/history.php I originally heard this quote from Mr. L, back at St. Al's in about 7th grade. He was a great teacher and this quote always stuck with me:

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

-- George Santayana

]]> phil 2004-07-23T22:48:07-05:00 Beauty and Truth http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2004/06/13/beauty_and_truth.php Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
-- John Keats, "Ode to a Grecian Urn"

]]> Books phil 2004-06-13T13:31:44-05:00 "Who Am I?" http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2004/06/13/who_am_i.php If I speak, I am condemned
If I stay silent, I am damned!
--Les Miserables, "Who Am I?"

]]> Theater phil 2004-06-13T12:59:32-05:00 Spreading Light http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2003/11/20/spreading_light.php There are only two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
--Albert Einstein

]]> phil 2003-11-20T17:37:52-05:00 Permanence of Love http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2003/10/13/permanence_of_love.php

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

--Anna Louise Strong

]]> phil 2003-10-13T12:26:20-05:00 CTHG http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2003/10/13/cthg.php

A faithful heart makes dreams come true.

--from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

]]> phil 2003-10-13T12:22:29-05:00 Once and Again http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2003/08/16/once_and_again.php

I just think that sometimes things happen between people that you don't really expect. And sometimes the things that are important are the ones that seem the weirdest or the most wrong. And those are the ones that change your life.

--final episode of Once and Again

]]> phil 2003-08-16T11:21:33-05:00 Gays in Mainstream Media http://www.philmakara.com/quoteblog/2003/08/01/gays_in_mainstream_media.php

A heterosexual watching gay characters is no more likely to become gay than I am going to become a hip young woman watching Sex in the City.

--Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, on some the ripple effects of gays in mainstream media (from ABCNews.com)

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